PESHAWAR, Dec 31: Suspected militants blew up a state-run high school for girls at Badhber on the suburbs of provincial metropolis on Friday night, police said.

An official of Badhber police station told Dawn that two powerful explosives were planted at different places in the school building. The devices went off late in the night, he added.

He said that at least four rooms of the school were blown up while some others developed cracks. He said that each of the locally made explosives weighed about one kilogram.

A resident of the area, wishing not to be named, said that despite improvement in law and order situation, schools were not safe in the area.—Bureau Report